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Doomed (Damned, #2) QUOTES

Doomed (Damned, #2) QUOTES

1 " It's exhausting, the energy it takes to unknow a truth. "

― Chuck Palahniuk , Doomed (Damned, #2)

2 " The only thing that makes the present palatable is the fact that the past was, at times, torture. "

― Chuck Palahniuk , Doomed (Damned, #2)

3 " Religions exist because people would rather have a wrong answer than no answer at all. "

― Chuck Palahniuk , Doomed (Damned, #2)

4 " When you die, trust me, the most difficult person to leave behind is yourself. "

― Chuck Palahniuk , Doomed (Damned, #2)

5 " I irritate; therefore I am. "

― Chuck Palahniuk , Doomed (Damned, #2)

6 " The avant-garde in every field consists of the lonely, the friendless, the uninvited. All progress is the product of the unpopular. "

― Chuck Palahniuk , Doomed (Damned, #2)

7 " How could you ever bring yourself to love so deeply if you truly knew how brief a lifetime could be? "

― Chuck Palahniuk , Doomed (Damned, #2)

8 " Writing an honest blog is how you unlive your life. "

― Chuck Palahniuk , Doomed (Damned, #2)

9 " WHat I learned is, it's never too late to save anybody. And it's always too late. And what are the chances you'll make any difference? "

― Chuck Palahniuk , Doomed (Damned, #2)

10 " Set yourself a goal so difficult that death will seem like a welcome reprieve. "

― Chuck Palahniuk , Doomed (Damned, #2)

11 " Civilization is a condition which unsocial misfits impose on the rest of popular, easygoing, family-oriented humanity. Only the miserable, the failures, the outcasts will crouch for days to observe the mating habits of a salamander. "

― Chuck Palahniuk , Doomed (Damned, #2)

12 " Good and evil have always existed. They always will. It’s only our stories about them that ever change. "

― Chuck Palahniuk , Doomed (Damned, #2)

13 " I love and adore all of my family, except when I'm with them. "

― Chuck Palahniuk , Doomed (Damned, #2)

14 " Do you believe in an afterlife? Do your personal beliefs include a life after death?—no matter how they phrase their snotty test, do the following. Simply look them in the eye, snort derisively, and retort, “Frankly, only a provincial ignoramus would even believe in death. "

― Chuck Palahniuk , Doomed (Damned, #2)

15 " ...please accept the fact that people do not change over time.The elderly are, in reality, age tikes.Conversely, the young are juvenile codgers.Granted, we might develop some skills, achieve some profound insights over a lifetime, but by and large who you are at eighty-five is who you were at five.One is either born intelligent or not.The body ages, grows, passes through near-lunatic phases of reproductive frenzy, but you are born and die the same person. "

― Chuck Palahniuk , Doomed (Damned, #2)

16 " How could you let me love something that was going to die? "

― Chuck Palahniuk , Doomed (Damned, #2)

17 " Every unkind remark or crude gesture by others is a blessing, an opportunity to exercise our own capacity to forgive. "

― Chuck Palahniuk , Doomed (Damned, #2)

18 " This isn't anywhere I haven't been before. I've given up. In words muffled with exhaustion I whisper a prayer for my heart to stop. "

― Chuck Palahniuk , Doomed (Damned, #2)

19 " because the rubber, too, is bulletproof. And so relentless is the wind that it rakes the street, pushing along this burden of crippled vermin, trundling this tide of suffering always in the wake of the Town Car as it reaches Spaulding Square. Fissures of lightning "

― Chuck Palahniuk , Doomed (Damned, #2)

20 " Not merely godforsaken, I feel forsaken by everyone. "

― Chuck Palahniuk , Doomed (Damned, #2)